Frozen Planet

[Flosshilde]

Oh dear.

Perhaps my analogy was badly chosen. Rather than soap opera it's perhaps more like The Only Way is Essex (but a good deal better to look at, & with more intelligent participants ), or any so-called 'reality television', in that it presents a highly dramatised version of reality.

& the music in the programme I watched wasn't nearly as intrusive as in other series I've seen - but still there. In my view it's entirely unneccessary - the programme makers should have confidence in the drama of what's happening on the screen. But then, when so many interviews with people ask them what's the soundtrack to their life it seems to be accepted that everything we do has to have a musical accompaniament (but perhaps I'm descending into Grumpy Old Man territory )

[ahinton]

ahinton,

When people visit London Zoo or Whipsnade, they sometimes comment that nothing much seems to be happening. Watching a lion having a snooze while digesting its lunch is the norm, but rather lacking in drama, even if observed in the wild.We have become too accustomed to seeing several entire life cycles condensed into approximately 48 minutes and fifty seconds on TV. What bugs me more is the increasing tendency to invest the animals with a false sense of purpose -- " The mother bear knows that she must find more food , if she and her cubs are to survive " == No, she doesn't!

Sure - but then I think that most people would recognised that spending an hour in a zoo and spending an hour watching a natural history programme are far from the same kinds of experience before bothering to do either!

[ahinton]

Oh dear.

Perhaps my analogy was badly chosen. Rather than soap opera it's perhaps more like The Only Way is Essex (but a good deal better to look at, & with more intelligent participants ), or any so-called 'reality television', in that it presents a highly dramatised version of reality.

Your implication that the only way for Essex is for it to be moved to Antarctica might upset some of its inhabitants!...

& the music in the programme I watched wasn't nearly as intrusive as in other series I've seen - but still there. In my view it's entirely unneccessary - the programme makers should have confidence in the drama of what's happening on the screen. But then, when so many interviews with people ask them what's the soundtrack to their life it seems to be accepted that everything we do has to have a musical accompaniament (but perhaps I'm descending into Grumpy Old Man territory )

Yes, music with everything that doesn't have fries with it...

[Flosshilde]

Your implication that the only way for Essex is for it to be moved to Antarctica might upset some of its inhabitants!...

But the expressions on some of the participants couldn't get any more frozen TOWIE must account for 50% of the world's botox production. (& I must say - for the sake of my reputation - that I've watched less than 5 minutes of the programme - in the interests of research. No, really.)

However, we mustn't go off-topic, or Mr P will be after us.

[Serial_Apologist]

Frozen Pee - from a bird's eye view.

[Nick Armstrong]

Frozen Pee - from a bird's eye view.

http://ihasahotdog.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/funny-dog-pictures-gonna-pee.jpg

[Serial_Apologist]

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Ah yes - the Yellow Peril that's always first in line (ahem) for spoiling a snow scene.

[Chris Newman]

Oh dear. The United States Government has banned the transmission of the last episode of Frozen Planet by all channels. Where environmental matters are concerned Senator MacCarthy comes back to roost?

[Bryn]

Oh dear. The United States Government has banned the transmission of the last episode of Frozen Planet by all channels. Where environmental matters are concerned Senator MacCarthy comes back to roost?

If this is true, whoever imposed the ban must surely be an agent provocateur working for the environmental movement. Bootlegged copies derived from the iPlayer will be popping up all over the Internet.

[Bryn]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/8939592/Frozen-Planet-controversial-BBC-climate-change-episode-to-air-in-America.html

[Chris Newman]

Thanks for that, Bryn. The DT says it was a BBC decision rather than US Government. Whatever, it does seem rather strange and toothless.

[BBMmk2]

Whats happened to freedom of speech?

[pete]

Great prog' and great crew. I'm no animal expert but i often think they are "telepathic" e.g. when birds fly in formation they all turn in the same direction, the same amount, at same time!! Epilepsy dogs can sense when a person is going to have a seizure! So are they telepathic?? I could go on and I know they certainly have more sense than we think. Not that this has anything to do with music!

[Serial_Apologist]

Not that this has anything to do with music!

If it did, you would know what the next note was going to be!

[Mr Pee]

I was pleasantly surprised by the final episode of this fantastic series. I was worried that the whole thing would be a lecture on global warming, but Sir David simply explained what was happening without trotting out the usual dubious scientific "evidence" that climate change is caused by human activity.

And it enabled us to re-visit one of the most remarkable images of the whole seven episodes- the birth of that 75,000,000 tonne iceberg in Antarctica.